The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-20
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Chronicle.
THE gross receipts from General Grants
Memoirs are said to have reached the sum
of $3000,000.
THE man who had rather be right than be
president never lacks opportunities. 81 os-
ton 7rdUeHer.
THEY never call Mr. Cody Buffalo Bill 3"
in Boston. They speak of him as " Bison
Americans Guillamus. = Erchdnge.
AN enterprising physician in Australia
advertises: 81 will pay one-half of the
funeral expenses in cases where am not
successful"
A FEW rich Chicago Presbyterians are to
give S250,0O0 year for five years to Lake
Forest University, Presbyterian institu-
ton near Chicago.
THE most afflicted part of the house is the
window. 1t is full of pains: and who has
not seen more than one window blind?-
american Incentor.
A PAso RoBLEs (Cal) paper tells of tree
in that town on which no less than four
varieties of fruit are at present to be seen.
They are peaches, plums, apricots and al
monds.
A RECTOR in Shropshire, Eng, recently
celebrated the communion with water in
stead of wine because the church wardens
had neglected to provide wine for the
service.
EVERY man tnlnkS ne is ABOUT right him.
self. An old Quaker said to his wife: d" All
the world is queer except thee and me,
and thee is little queer. "-NeW orleans
Picdyane.
AFTER running a lawn-mower for an hour
this morning he remarked that if ever he
had said anything derogatory or unkind of
the snow-shovel he would most willingly
take it back.-ErchdnQe
SOME trickster inserted the letter as " into
a npn1inn in lla I
the trick had not been discovered it would
have been illegal to sell "spools on the
race-tracl1s in that state.
A FUNERAL procession of two hundred
six carriages, and a mile in length, which
took place in Berks county, Pennsylvania,
showed that funeral reform " has not be-
come generally observed.
HER mother: "He's a brute. nv dear.
but don't cry. / gave you to him because
he said he knew the secret of making you
happy" Daughter: Well, he's kept his
secret admirably. "-French Fm.
THE English bonnets of the season are
said to be built very much like the English
road wagons. They are very solid-look-
ing, and have frames which convey the idea
that they would come intact out of serious
accident"
AN authority on canned goods reveals the
interesting fact that most of the ielies i'm
the market are made of apple-parings and
cores. Sometimes the stock is kept so long
that it will not make Jelly; then they make
strained honey out of it.-PhHddelphid Medi-
cal and Surgical Reporter.
"OH, my friends, there are some specta-
Giles that one never forgets" said a lecturer,
after giving graphic description of ter
rible accident which he had witnessed.
I'd like to know where they sell 'em, ~ re-
marked an old lady in the audience who is
always misaying her glasses.
ROBERT GIFFEN the statistician of the
British board of trade, calculates from the
figures of certain banking houses that the
remittances from America to Ireland in
thirty-seven years have amounted to over
S15OOOO 600 and that for six years these re-
mittances have been 81 ,42j, 600 annually.
The orange groves of Florida have aston
ished the natives by putting out a crop of
blossoms this month. The Orlando Sentinel
says IT is surprise to the oldest nhabitants.
The groves are in as full bloom as they gen.
orally are in February and March, and a
large crop of fruit is expected, though it
will be late in ripening.
The children are getting more precocious
every day. On returning home from his
office Colonel Yerger found his ten-year-old
boy Tommy in the front yard playing
marbles with a strange boy of about his
own age. Bill, said Tommy, " allow me
10 introduce you to my father. You two
gentleman ought to know each other
CURIOUS sounds of prisoners singing often
issue from Georgia colored mems jals. 1t is a
common practice for prisoners in their hour
OF exercise to tramp up and down, their feet
keeping time TO camp-meetng song.
And am only born to die" and "The
Lord will provide " are sung with a native
energy and hearty abandon by the thieves
and vagabonds.
A FARMER named Gerrand, at Campbell
ton, n. b., went with his dog into the field to
hT1 hi ng.ftl 10 Il.
storm July .. Fifteen minutes after he left
the house the dog returned with the mans
hat in his mouth. The family found that
hole had been burned in the top of the hat.
and, going out into the field, found Gerrand
lying, dead on the ground He had been
killed by stroke of lightning.
YES, it is philanthropic age. Here is
man writing to the Boston TranscriDt that
the season having arrived when many home
less cats are seen in our streets hungry and
forlorn, he would remind whom it may con-
Germ that there is home at Brighton which
IS always ready to receive homeless animals.
The cats or other animals will be sent for
to any part of the city and ono case of a
homeless nature will be denied"
IT happens occasionally that even the
most powerful monarchs are unable to full
nil their wishes. On one occasion AleXan-
der the Great, who was born 1913 b. c.
wishing to have his photograph taken, went
TO the studio of Heleodoros & Brothers on
the corner of Broadway and Park place.
Upon making known his wish Heeodoros
called AleXanders attention to the fact that
photography had not yet been invented. 81
forgot all about that, remarked Alexander.
Il guess I'll have to wait awhile" and he
walked off very much Disguised -Tegas
SQtingS.
ALFRED KRUPP, the famous manufacturer
of cannon, who died July 14th in Germany.
at the age of seventy-ive years, was, it is
said, at the head of the largest industrial
enterprise in the world dependent on a single
individual. The works within the town
OF Essen occupy more than 800 acres half
OF which are under cover. According TO a
census taken few years ago the number
OF hands employed by Mr. Krupp was 10 6O5,
the members of their families Al, 776, maxi
ing 65,3Sl persons supported by his works
Mr.. Krupp owned j47 iron mines in Ger
many. He owned four sea steamers, and
there are connected with the Essen works
az miles OF railway, employing % locomo-
nves and SS3 cars, 60 horses, with 191 wag-
ons, and 40 miles of telegraph wires, with
10 stations and 80 Morse apparatuses. The
establishment possesses a grand chemical
laboratory, Photographic and photographic
atelier, printing-ofce with three steam
and six hand-presses, and book binding
room lie was foremost among manufac-
turers in the care and forethought he exer-
cised FOR the welfare of his men and their
families. He built good dwelling-houses,
hospitals and places of amusement A sick
burial and pension fund had an income
in 1873 of $4,000, and the expenditures
m M tod m oil.